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Bhubaneswar: India opened their campaign in Hockey Pro League with a 1-2 loss against China at the Kalinga Hockey Stadium, Bhubaneswar.

New Delhi: Doubles pair of Yuki Bhambri-Saketh Myneni and Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha won their respective matches against their Pakistani rivals to give India a dominating 4-0 win over the hosts in the play-off tie in Islamabad and moved entry into the Davis Cup 2024 World Group I on Sunday.

New Delhi: Ramkumar Ramanathan and Sriram Balaji chalked out contrasting victories over their Pakistani rivals to give India 2-0 lead in its Davis Cup 2024 World Group I play- off on the grass courts of the Pakistan Sports Complex in Islamabad on Saturday.

New Delhi: Reigning world champions Nikhat Zareen and Lovlina Borgohain will lead the 19 nember Indian Indian challenge at the 75th Strandja Memorial Tournament to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria from February 3 to February 11.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no change in the Budget script as far as Kerala is concerned. It has been an unredeeming tale of severe neglect from the Union Government, repeated ad nauseum over the years.

In Assam, bad news continues for the opposition: little tangible progress has been made in pre-election seat sharing talks among major parties opposing the ruling Bharatiya Janata party(BJP), as they desperately struggle to build a united anti-Saffron front, in recent weeks.

Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud’s call for an end to the ‘adjournment culture’ in the functioning of the courts could not have come a day sooner. “In the near future, we must address structural issues affecting the judiciary such as the pendency of cases, our archaic procedures, and the culture of adjournments,” he said while delivering an address at the inauguration ceremony of the upcoming year-long celebrations marking the diamond jubilee of the Supreme Court.

Reduction in the total allocations for Union Ministry of Labour and Employment and also workers’ social security in the Interim Union Budget 2024-25 has revealed PM Narendra Modi government’s anti-labour stance, an allegation that has been labelled by the joint platform of Central Trade Unions (CTUs) since the passage of four controversial labour laws in the Parliament of India in 2019 and 2020.

“Our Prime Minister firmly believes, we need to focus on four major castes,” said Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Interim Union Budget 2024-25 speech – Garib (poor), Mahilayen (women), Yuva (youth), and Annadata (Farmer). Their needs, their aspirations, and their welfare are our highest priority, she claimed. However, in reality, as the budget papers reveal, it was an utter lie, advocacy of the just opposite of what the government did, a mere reverse psychology. The reality is, they suffered the worst in the last 10 years of Modi rule, but on the eve of Lok Sabha General Election 2024, Government just needed to pacify them for their votes.

After Hemant Soren, will it be the turn of Arvind Kejriwal. Both of them Chief Ministers who became targets of the Enforcement Directorate. The Jharkhand Chief Minister got arrested and had to resign. Hemant Soren says he will fight to win; fighting words, but the writing is on the wall. Problem is, the Modi government is whittling opposition Chief Ministers one after another and leaving them in Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’s wake.